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JOHN W. ANDERSON AND ADAM B. GEOFF, OF LANGASTElhPENNSYLVANIA; SAID ANDERSON ASSIGNOR TO SAID GEOFF.

VEGETABLE AND MEAT SLICING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,139, dated November 1, 1881.

Application filed July 25, 1881. (Model) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN W. ANDERSON and ADAM B. GEOFF, both of Lancaster, county of Lancaster, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Meat and Vegetable Slicing Machine, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to slicing-machines in which the frame carrying the cutter and gage is slid back and forth beside a table provided with guides therefor, the articles to be sliced being fed up byhand to the cutter, they being pressed upon said table.

The principal novel features of our improvement are, first, to provide the guides of the cutterframe with cross -braces peculiarly constructed and combined with step-hinge plates, by which the machine-table is attached to set it firmly up to the edge of the cutter, and to keepit in place when folded for shipment; second, in combination with said guide-frame of the cutter, on one of the cross-braces thereof, a drop-bolt forholdin g erect the head-board of the table, the samebein gremovably attached thereto; third, certain folding parallel connectors for the gage, by which it is guided when adjusted between the cutter-ledges; fourth, in combination with the gage provided with folding connectors, a slotted arm thereon, which is clamped to a post by a thumb-screw in any desired position, said post being erected on a cross-bar on the cutter-ledges at their front ends.

We attain our improvement by construction and arrangement of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top view of our machine. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same. Fig. 3is a rear view of thesame. Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the same, taken transversely at the indicated line 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a transverse brace of the cutter-frame.

Similar letters of reference denote similar parts.

Letter Areprescnts the cutter-frame guides,

which are simply bars of wood, grooved to loosely admit therein the ledges H of the cuttor-slide, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4- Said thereto by wood-screws. Said braces have at their lower ends lateral extensions, with standards D thereon, to which are pivoted, at B, step-hinge plates is, which are pivoted at p to the end of the machine-table, as shown. Said step-hinge plates are stopped both ways by the extension of the braces, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4. Said table K is held firmly extended at right angles to the machine-frame A O Gby the head-board L, removably attached by a stud, Z, entered into said table K, and by a hook,r, passed through a plate, 20, attached to the outer edge of the table, and also bya dropbolt, S, passed through lugs W on brace G,

and holding the top of said board detachably. When said drop-bolt S is raised the board L can be removed and the table K folded, with said board L stowed away between the parts, as shown in Fig. 4. The table is held folded by the purchase of its edge against the guide Abelow, and by the fulcra or pivots B J. The plates 7c, having purchase thereat, are arranged to prop in lines at right angles to said table when folded.

The cutter M is firmly attached to board 11 as shown, which board has attached to its edges ledges H, and the latter are joined at their forward ends by the brace R. Between said brace It and the cutter M and said ledges is adjustably supported the board H, which serves as a gage to regulate the thickness of the slice to be taken by the cutter. It stops the article to be out, according as it is fed up more or less out from the plane of the cutter. Said gage H is supported adjustablybetween said ledges H by folding arms h, pivoted at points m in' or to said ledges, and also pivoted to said gage at points a, the latter pivots being extended from chairs 1) on said gage, as shown. The arm N, attached to the back of the gage, is extended, as shown, and has the curved slot N therein, through which the thumb screw T, reaching, clamps it by its shoulder against the side of the post R on the brace R, as shown,the point of the screw work ing in said post. When said screw is slackened the said gage may be freely pushed back and forth by hand to vary the thickness of the slice to be cut, and when it is tightened, after adjustment, it stands very firmly, and perfectly parallel to the plane of the cutter-guides.

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It may be noticed that both edges of the gage, as well as both ends, must be equally advanced when adjusted to make a slice of uniform thickness, which is attained by the action of the folding arms h, and less lost motion occurs by our mode of adj ustmentthan in gages which are adjusted by power applied only at one end or side thereof. Moreover, our mode of adjustment is speedy, as the gage may be instantly adjusted from one extreme of thickness of slice to the other.

The pins a b below the machine are added to serve as detents to bear against the edge of a bench or table-top, on which the apparatus is placed while at work. They may beinserted in holes in the same to still better advantage.

Having described our improvement sufficiently to be understood, we claim as our in vention- 1. The folding table K, connected to the braces O G by the step-hinge plates 70, all constructed and operating substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The folding table K, connected to the braces G G by step-hinge plates 70, havin g pivots B J, in combination with the removable headboard L, secured by stud l and hook r below, and by the drop-bolt S above, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. 'In combination, the gage H, arranged in front of the knife M and between the ledges H, and the pivoted folding parallel arms h, for advancing the said gage equally at all points, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. The gage H, connected to ledges H by parallel folding arms h, in combination with the slot-ted arm NN, fixed part B, and screw T, all operating substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we hereunto set our hands and seals this 9th day of July, A. D. 1881.

Witnesses:

A. A. BROGAN, ALBERT SUTER. 

